OMG these pens glide so smoothly on paper. ❤️ I don’t know why, but using them makes me happy. Are there scented ones? I want scented ones. They remind me of when I used to have a peach-coloured one that was vanilla-scented back in third-grade.

I have a new planner too and it’s pretty, and it has a proper list section for priorities and weekly focus, and it has quotes and everything. I’ve never considered myself a list person, but lately I’ve been making a lot of them.

Okay, back to writing. Hope everyone’s had a great Christmas, and belated Happy New Year! 🙂

Much like For Never and Always, I’ve rewritten the beginning of Fortuity book #3. Something about it wasn’t working out, but I’ve finally settled on one I like. Writing at a snail’s pace, but still writing.

With all the the outlines, the routine, and focusing on the numbers side of the business, I’m reminded that it’s easy to forget why I do this in the first place—because I love it when what’s in my mind comes out and becomes words on a page. Then the story is no longer one that just lives in my head. I’m hoping to release it by end of June-early July. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Oh, and I’m lucky enough to be a part of a Romance promo group this May. Check out some of the books from this group below:

I’ve never had technology randomly break on me. Unless you count that one time I dropped my phone on the pavement—its screen cracked, of course. It still worked.

Technology is my best friend. We understand each other. We help each other. So, imagine my surprise when my Mac screen turned black. I fully expected it to turn back on when I pressed the power button.

It didn’t.

This happened around a week ago. I had scheduled an appointment with Genius Bar today, and it (thankfully!) turned out it to be a software issue, since an image restore made it work again.

I didn’t have any Time Machine backups—I only used iCloud sync with Documents and Desktop, as well as Dropbox for Scrivener. Everything is still there, but I guess this taught me to always do a backup, because setting up applications and settings again are a major pain and time sink. But I’ve never been more grateful my current writing stuff is backed up in Dropbox, because for a little while, I wasn’t sure if those iCloud files would carry over.

I feel like a kid in the candy store whenever I buy stationery. Sad about this one, it only has a few pages left. I have new one that’s also really pretty, but I think it has a different quote.

I’m ready for Fortuity book #3. 😀 I have stuff I’ve written that may or may not be relevant, I just have to find the ones I didn’t write when I was half-asleep.
Determined to knock this off today’s to-do list.